Staff Nurse Outpatients

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust invites applications for a clinically credible nurse to support the nurse managers in delivering high-quality patient care across divisions. The post holder will serve as a Named Nurse within a Team, taking responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care.

You will mentor students and junior nurses, demonstrate up-to-date knowledge within the specialty, and promote evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Support nurse managers in delivering high-quality care.
• Act as Named Nurse within divisions; assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.
• Mentor students and junior nurses.
• Be clinically credible and provide effective patient care across settings.
• Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge within the specialty.
• Flexible, able to work all shifts and adapt to shift pattern changes.
• Provide unit cover in the absence of the unit manager.
• Work under pressure with initiative; reflective practice.
• Manual handling of patients; wound management; infection control; bladder scanning.
• Phlebotomy and ENT minor procedures.

Job description

Accountable to Deputy Service General Manager / Head of Nursing, the post holder will play a key role in supporting the nurse managers in providing high-quality care.

The post holder must be prepared to work within the divisions as a Named Nurses, within a Team, and take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.

The post holder will be a clinically credible practitioner who can provide effective patient care in a range of clinical settings, having regard for relevant policies and the evidence-based nursing.

The post holder will provide support and mentorship for students and junior nurses.

Ability to conduct themselves in public and private situations in an appropriate manner.

• To demonstrate knowledge of being up to date within the specialty.
• Flexible, able to work all shifts, and adaptable to changes in shift pattern.
• To provide unit cover in the absence of the unit manager.
• Ability to work under pressure, using initiative.
• The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice.

• Ability to manage conflict

• Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids
• Minor operation exposure (dermatology)
• Wound management
• Infection control
• Bladder scanning
• Phlebotomy
• ENT minor procedures

Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When We Feel Supported And Happy At Work, This Positivity Reaches Those Very People We Are Here For, The Patients. Engaged Employees Perform At Their Best And Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives Contribute To Cultivate a Culture Of Engagement. We Have Four Staff Networks, a Corporate EDI Team And a Suite Of Programmes And Events Which Aim To Insert The 5 Aspirations

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karen Davy Job title: Nurse Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0779 561 7362